Course

(Approximate Percentage of Examination by Content Area): 11% Causes of the war-United States society in the mid-nineteenth century; growing differences between the North and South; slavery as a Southern institution; abolition movement; westward expansion of free and slave territory; John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry; political situation in 1860; 11% 1861-secession; Fort Sumter; Union Army v. Confederate Army; First Manassas (Bull Run); 22% 1862-political situation North and South; Army of Potomac under McClellan; war in the West; war in the East; major battles; Emancipation Proclamation; 21% 1863-casualties; role of women in the war, North and South; black Americans and the war; political situation; major battles; 22% 1864 to May 1865-political situation; war in the West; war in the East: Sherman's continued march through the South; fall of Richmond; flight of Confederate government; Lee's surrender; assassination of Lincoln; end of the Confederacy; cost of the war; 13% Reconstruction-presidential reconstruction plans; congressional reconstruction plans; Civil Rights Act, reconstruction in the South; end of Reconstruction.